Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Metropolitan borough. | N umber of sanitary inspectors. | Census, 1901. | ||||||||||||||
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Inhabited houses. | Total tenements. | Tenements under 5 rooms. | Overcrowded tenements. | Population. | Population in tenements under 5 rooms. | Population in overcrowded tenements. | Average per sanitary inspector. | |||||||||
Males. | Females. | In- habited houses. | Tenements. | Tenements under 5 rooms. | Overcrowded tenements. | Population. | Population in tenements under 5 rooms. | Population in overcrowded tenements. | ||||||||
Battersea | 11 | 2 | 23,462 | 38,987 | 24,089 | 3,032 | 168,907 | 88,999 | 18,381 | 1,805 | 2,999 | 1,853 | 233 | 12,993 | 6,846 | 1,414 |
Bermondsey | 9 | — | 15,817 | 29,073 | 22,064 | 4,307 | 130,760 | 86,156 | 25,726 | 1,757 | 3,230 | 2,452 | 479 | 14,529 | 9,573 | 2,858 |
Bethnalgreen | 10 | — | 14,005 | 28,209 | 23,732 | 6,384 | 129,680 | 98,853 | 38,410 | 1,400 | 2,821 | 2,373 | 638 | 12,968 | 9,885 | 3,841 |
Camberwell | 13 | 1 | 36,671 | 56,985 | 31,926 | 4,073 | 259,339 | 117,648 | 25,012 | 2,619 | 4,070 | 2,820 | 291 | 18,524 | 8,403 | 1,787 |
Chelsea | 3 | 1 | 8,641 | 17,467 | 12,082 | 1,914 | 73,842 | 37,723 | 10,659 | 2,160 | 4,367 | 3,020 | 478 | 18,460 | 9,431 | 2,665 |
Deptford | 8 | — | 15,823 | 24,615 | 13,956 | 1,667 | 110,398 | 51,861 | 9,999 | 1,978 | 3,077 | 1,744 | 208 | 13,800 | 6,483 | 1,250 |
* For the purposes of this report the term "overcrowded tenements" is applied to those tenements of less than 5 rooms which at the date of the 1901 census were occupied to the extent of more than two persons per room. |